ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,124, issued on May 27, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Circuit device, electronic apparatus, and image processing method" was invented by Sebdani Mahmood Mazrouei (Markham, Canada), Kumar Anandabairavasamy Anand (Richmond, Canada) and Hideki Matsuda (Chino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit device includes an image processing circuit that receives target image data by adding effective image data to known image data, executes image processing on the target image data, and outputs processed effective image data corresponding to a processed effective image and processed known image data corresponding to a proces...